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The Strater Hotel, opened in 1888 during a mining boom in Durango, Colorado. Four years later, owner Henry M. Strater added another hotel, the Columbian, next door. After the financial panic of 1893, Strater consolidated the hotels into one that drips with Victorian flourishes. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Painting of the American and Texas flags on a building in Albany, Texas, seat of Shackelford County. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Shellfish traps in Wanchese, an old fishing port on Roanoke Island in North Carolina's Outer Banks. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Reconstruction at Ground Zero, site of the attack on the World Trade Center Twin Towers. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Stratosphere Tower in Las Vegas Strip. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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A lone and lean coyote makes the best of wintertime in the northernmost Wyoming reaches of Yellowstone National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Elk at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's elk refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a valley on the edge of Grand Teton National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

One of the twice-daily parades of longhorn steers (for tourists' enjoyment) up Exchange Street in the Stockyards District of Fort Worth. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

For displaying jellyfish, The Monterey Bay Aquarium uses a Kreisel tank, which creates a circular flow to support and suspend the jellies. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Decatur, Alabama annual Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Decatur, Alabama annual Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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White Bengal tiger at the Montgomery Zoo, it was established in 1920 as part of Oak Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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A shell casing flies out with a trail of smoke as U.S. Army

Prater Free Fall Tower

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Landscape and bridge along the Connecticut River

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Mountain-sunset view from Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Dusk shot of Santa Barbara, California, and the Pacific shore, taken from bluffs high above the city. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Monument Valley, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Minneapolis skyline at dusk. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Spring field of rapeseed flowers in Benton County, Mississippi. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Bicyclists round the James Scott Memorial Fountain on Detroit's Belle Isle, a once-posh island park in the Detroit River, Detroit, Michigan (1980-2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

A young bald eagle surveys the world below in the vast Wyoming portion of Yellowstone National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Rodeo action at the Cheyenne Frontier Days celebration in Wyoming's capital city. The Western celebration has been celebrated since 1897. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

A steam train crosses the 156-foot-tall Bass Point Creek Bridge. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Night skyline of Atlanta, Georgia. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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K-pop Idol Group BTS in 2014 performing at Mnet M Countdown.

$Big Tex, 55-foot-tall statue and marketing icon of the annual State Fair of Texas held at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas. The figure has become a cultural icon of Dallas and Texas. On October 19, 2012, THIS Big Tex was destroyed by an electrical fire that started in the in the right boot and worked its way up the structure. It was replaced a "new" Tex. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.$

A view of lower Manhattan a month before 9/11. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Murals, Louisville Murals-Stock Farming, by Frank Weathers Long at the Gene Snyder U.S Courthouse & Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky (2011) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

Murals, Louisville Murals-Rural Free Delivery, by Frank Weathers Long at the Gene Snyder U.S Courthouse & Custom House, Louisville, Kentucky (2011) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Alligator Adventure, a fourteen-acre theme park of sorts that calls itself the "Reptile Capital of the World" in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Yosemite National Park, United States. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Deer in the tall grass below Devil's Tower National Monument in Crook County, Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

As dusk approaches, balloons land at the National Balloon Classic, a hot air balloon exhibition in Indianola, Iowa, a town near the state capital of Des Moines. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Bayou La Batre is a fishing village with a seafood-processing harbor for fishing boats and shrimp boats. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Sage Creek at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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Sage Creek Ranch at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

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The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, AL, where Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. pastored from 1954-1960. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Alabama River Pulp Company and the Claiborne Mill Complex. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Point Iroquois Light Station in upper MIchigan's Hiawatha National Forest stands on the point on Lake Superior where Chippewe Indians halted the rival Iroquois' westward expansion (1980-2006) by Carol M. Highsmith. Original image from Library of Congress.

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Mountain-sunset view from Telluride, once a mining boomtown and now a popular skiing destination in Colorado - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Decatur, Alabama annual Hot Air Balloon Jubilee Festival. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Infrared view of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, USA. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Alligator Adventure, a fourteen-acre theme park of sorts that calls itself the "Reptile Capital of the World" in North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Elk at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's elk refuge in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, a valley on the edge of Grand Teton National Park. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Guntersville is a city in Marshall County, Alabama, United States and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, AL, where Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. pastored from 1954-1960. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Rolling irrigation sprinkler at work along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Grand Teton National Park view. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

LaFayette Park, located directly north of the White House on H Street between 15th and 17th Streets, N.W., Washington, D.C. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Some of the genuine Old West possessions displayed inside a bunkhouse — a small railroad office moved to the location and converted for ranch use — on a ranch owned by Annie Young Shelton and Ferol Shelton near Clarendon in the Texas Panhandle. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

At the Trinidad Mining Museum in Trinidad, Colorado, old-timers Tom Hay, Alex Gerardo, Gerald Renner, and Bob Butero (left to right) relive some memories of their days in the nearby coal mines. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Climber at the Ouray Ice Park, a human-made ice climbing venue in a natural gorge within walking distance of the city of Ouray, Colorado. It is home to more than 200 named ice and mixed climbs. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The majestic peaks of the Teton Range reflect in a mountain stream in Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Black and white intrared view of an old train car found in a back lot of the warehouse district in Selma, Alabama. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Aerial view of New York City, in which the World Trade Center Twin Towers is prominent. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Sage Creek at Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge-3

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Ground Zero under construction New York City. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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This is not a fire in the distance, near the settlement of Ganado on Navajo Nation land in far northeast Arizona. It’s a remarkable sunset. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

A Durango & Silverton Narrow-Guage Scenic Railroad train, pulled by a vintage steam locomotive, navigates a San Juan Mountains precipice in Las Animas County, Colorado. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church & Parsonage, AL, where Dr. Martin Luther, King, Jr. pastored from 1954-1960. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Pier pilings at dusk along the Gulf of Mexico, between Waveland and Bay St. Louis in Hancock County, Mississippi. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

"Alpine Loop" San Juan Mountains above Silverton, Colorado USA - Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel

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Monument Valley, a Navajo Nation tribal park whose red-sandstone formations on the Colorado Plateau lie mostly in Arizona but also into Utah. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Carnival rides and games, including a Ferris wheel, in Phoenix at the annual Arizona State Fair, which has been held since 1884, eighteen years before statehood, when it was a territorial fair. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Young fans of the Colorado Rockies major-league baseball team wait and hope for player autographs at a Spring Training game between the Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks in Scottsdale, Arizona. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Sunset on the Chesapeake Bay, not far from Cape Charles on Virginia's long Eastern Shore. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Mount McKinley or Denali ("The Great One") in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America, at a height of approximately 20,320 feet above sea level. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Larry "Professor Paisley" Heidbreder tends to his yoked Texan longhorns (Justice, left, and Liberty) at the annual Battle of San Jacinto Festival and Battle Reenactment, a living-history retelling and demonstration of the historic Battle of San Jacinto. This was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Parque m xico, Ciudad de m xico, Mexico

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Martha Hepworth's 1964 creation, "Squares with Two Circles," at the Nasher Sculpture Center is a museum that opened in 2000 in Dallas. It houses a collection of modern and contemporary sculpture on a 2.4-acre site adjacent to the Dallas Museum of Art in the heart of the Dallas Arts District. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Atrium of the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin, one of the foremost university art museums in the country. Its permanent collection of more than 17,000 works is recognized for its European paintings, an encyclopedic collection of prints and drawings, and modern and contemporary American and Latin American art. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Saddle-bronc contest in Phoenix at the All-Indian Rodeo, a featured competition, open only to Native Americans with proof of tribal identification, at the annual Arizona State Fair, which has been held since 1884, eighteen years before statehood, when it was a territorial fair. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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The White House, the Jefferson Memorial and the Washington Monument.

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Rattlesnake Rodeo in Opp, Alabama. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Two "gunslingers" (historical intrepreters Wes Hughes, left, and Thornton Young) fire away in a showdown on the street at the Enchanted Springs Ranch and Old West theme park, special-events venue, and frequent movie and television-commercial set in Boerne, Texas, northwest of San Antonio. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Dusk shot of barges traversing a short canal that connects the Sabine Pass waterway separating Texas from Louisians, and the Trinity River, south of Port Arthur, Texas. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Sunflowers in a Wisconsin field. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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A group of F-15E Strike Eagles taxi following a training combat m

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Seahorse. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

M laga, Aeropuerto de m laga costa del sol, Spain

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M nsingen, Switzerl

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The Wigwam Motel on Route 66 in Holbrook, Arizona, where one can indeed “spend the night in a wigwam.” The brainchild of Frank Redford, this is one of what wer originally seven Wigwam Motels nationwide. The wigwams have a steel frame covered with wood, felt and canvas under a cement stucco exterior. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

One of several four-legged residents of the Forever Home Donkey Rescue & Sanctuary, a private facility in the Cochise County desert, several miles north of Benson, Arizona. "Each animal has a different story" of abuse, neglect, or abandonment, the sanctuary's staff and volunteers tell visitors. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The rotunda ceiling of the Texas capitol in Austin. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Brown bear, maybe smiling, at the Wild Animal Sanctuary, a 720-acre animal refuge housing more than 350 large animals near Keenesburg, Colorado. The sanctuary specializes in rescuing and caring for large predators that had being ill-treated. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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Sled dogs race through the Rocky Mountain backcountry near the ski resort of Snowmass Village, Colorado. The animals are a feature of the Krabloonik Dog Sledding operation tied to a rustic-cabin restaurant, established in 1974, that serves fresh fish and game dishes such as caribou sausage in the alpine setting. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

Capitol Hill at night. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress collection.

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Franklin County REA Power Plant Museum near Hampton, Iowa.

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Alaska Pipeline. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

The United States Courthouse. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection.

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